Comparison

Flipbook vs Box Cat Bash

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Flipbook

Easily create animated flipbooks and movies with drawing and painting tools. Print your creations to assemble physical flipbooks. Includes tutorials and lesson plans for kids, parents, and teachers.

Highlights
  • Draw, paint, and animate easily
  • Create cartoon characters and shape animations
  • Printable flipbooks in PDF format
  • Intuitive controls and tutorials
  • Stylus integration (e.g., Apple Pencil)
  • Lesson plans for parents and teachers
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Flipbook:Animate is an easy way for kids to create animation flipbooks and movies. Draw,paint and animate easily in this app designed specifically for kids. Create flipbooks and movies of cartoon characters,paintings or just doodle simple animations of shapes. Each animated movie can be printed out physically and assembled by hand to make a flipbook. *Print out your flipbooks,using the common PDF format *Intuitive controls and tons of tutorials *Integrates well with styluses like Ipad Pencil and Note *Features lesson plans for parents and teachers to create fun arts and crafts projects Flipbook:Animate is created by Appy Monkeys , the award winning studio behind Blox 3D,Animate Me and Draw 3D Junior which have collectively been downloaded more than 3 million times globally and been featured by Apple and Google.Our apps have won awards from Children's Tech review and have been featured by Purdue University in their STEAM/STEM guide for parents.

About

Box Cat Bash

Control a cat character to smash falling cars before they explode. This sequel to a 2011 hit features simple, tight controls optimized for mobile devices and supports game controllers.

Highlights
  • Smash falling cars
  • Tight mobile controls
  • Game controller support
  • Sequel to a classic
  • Arcade gameplay
Features
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Box Cat returns! Smash cars falling from above before they explode. Simple, tight controls built for your phone. Supports game controllers. Sequel to the 2011 smash hit Box Cat.

Screenshots

Flipbook3 screens
Box Cat Bash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Box Cat Bash at 100% against Flipbook's 13%. Box Cat Bash also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months). Flipbook's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, ads, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Flipbook costs $2.99 and Box Cat Bash $0.99 up front. Box Cat Bash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Flipbook asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Box Cat Bash holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Flipbook's written reviews are positive against 100% of Box Cat Bash's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flipbook ships an update every 7 months, Box Cat Bash every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Flipbook versus Box Cat Bash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlipbookBox Cat Bash
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating2.3 (10 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better10.0
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArjun GupteRusty Moyher

Customer experience

Flipbook

All ratings10 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative70.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative62.5%

Box Cat Bash

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Flipbook

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Box Cat Bash

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Flipbook free?
Flipbook costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Box Cat Bash free?
Box Cat Bash costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flipbook or Box Cat Bash?
Box Cat Bash is rated higher. Flipbook averages 2.3 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Box Cat Bash averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Flipbook or Box Cat Bash have ads?
Neither Flipbook nor Box Cat Bash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flipbook or Box Cat Bash?
Flipbook ships an update every 7 months, and Box Cat Bash every 2 days. Most recently, Flipbook was updated on October 1, 2026 and Box Cat Bash on October 17, 2026.

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